The Biden administration said May 16 that new fast-track processing of cases in immigration courts will reduce the time it takes to decide asylum claims. Some single applicants will receive a decision within months rather than years, APNews reported. Migrants who settled...
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced an expansion of the Temporary Final Rule (TFR) that requires the use of an agency interpreter for some asylum interviews. This is stated in a USCIS press release. This rule extends the requirement until September 12, 2023. After…
Maine Rep. Chelly Pingree re-introduced legislation that would allow asylum seekers to obtain work permits faster. A similar bill was not passed last session, but Pingree hopes things will be different this time around. Read more…
In 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) introduced the CBP One mobile app. Thus, border guards wanted to avoid long checks, similar to the work of the Global Entry and TSA PreCheck applications. Now CBP One has a new role - to accept...
Against the backdrop of the ongoing war with Ukraine and the mobilization announced in Russia at the end of September, the flow of political refugees from Russia and Belarus to the United States has increased significantly. Many of them, unable to obtain an American visa, apply for asylum in the southern ...
JC Cole, developer of Safe Haven Farms, has established maximum security complexes to survive the next pandemic or climate change disaster, according to NewYorkPost. Those who can afford to join him will also have a chance of survival, as he promises.…
With his Venezuelan ID, newly donated shoes and clean clothes, Adri Fernandez is trying to single-handedly pursue his American dream, according to Yahoo. Unlike families and unaccompanied children who have been the main groups migrating to the US in the past decade,…
Since the adoption of the official program for the admission of Ukrainian refugees to the United States Uniting for Ukraine, the number of Ukrainians trying to cross the southern border of the United States in search of protection has dropped dramatically. Now people fleeing the war can fly to America directly from Europe. What…
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has removed the requirement to provide biometric data when filing Form I-765 Application for Work Permit for asylum seekers. This is stated on the USCIS website. The fee for the services of receiving biometric data will also not be charged when ...
In January 1979, USSR citizen Liliana Gasinskaya, being a waitress on the Soviet cruise ship Leonid Sobinov, while the ship was parked in the port of Sydney in only a red bikini, crawled through the porthole, jumped into the water and swam for 40 minutes to the Australian coast,...